Surgical versus nonsurgical treatment for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis.

By J. Weinstein, J. Lurie, Tor D. Tosteson, B. Hanscom, A. Tosteson, E. Blood, N. Birkmeyer, A. Hilibrand, H. Herkowitz, F. Cammisa and 7 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2007

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Subfields: Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Surgery

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In Pathology and Forensic Medicine

1. Douglas G. Altman
2. R. Chou
3. E. Carragee

In Surgery

1. David Moher
2. Douglas G. Altman
3. E. Carragee

Citations in the corpus

• Extending the CONSORT statement to randomized trials of nonpharmacologic treatment: explanation and elaboration. (2008, background): “However, with limited evidence regarding efficacy for most nonsurgical treatments for degenerative spondylolisthesis, creating a fixed protocol for nonsurgical treatment was neither clinically feasible nor generalizable (36).”
• Interventional Therapies, Surgery, and Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation for Low Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society (2009, background): “Although patients on average do not worsen without surgery, improvements are less than those observed in patients with radiculopathy due to herniated lumbar disc.(120,121) There is insufficient evidence to determine if laminectomy with fusion is more effective than laminectomy without fusion.”